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Hundreds of iPhones With Fortnite Installed Flood eBay
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Hate to tell everyone but the days of walled-garden stores are on the way out. Apple, Google and other are going to pay through the nose eventually.
Epic says people will be able to play with the current version indefinitely if they're orphaned from the current build. They just won't get to start the next season, etc. For the record, I'm in this boat. Epic has decided that their fight with Apple is more important than players on iOS. I don't know how long I'll care about the game after I'm abandoned by Epic but I'm surely not spending any more money in it.
Oh get off your high horse. It’s not a bad way to make quick money especially if people are short on it right now.
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Agree and disagree.
The reason that the App Store is good for consumers is that it protects them — because they have proven to be terrible at protecting themselves. (Just look at the history of Windows vulnerabilities, and now Android).
Could you imagine if driver licenses were "open-sourced and available from non-verified sources"? Roads would be mayhem, and that's exactly what Apple is avoiding by keeping tight controls on the distribution of apps. It's good for consumers.
I truly believe that Apple needs to adhere to this approach, but take it a step further.... provide a "store framework" allowing other people to spin up their own stores, but all apps are still approved by Apple. This would give consumers the variety that they desire, would spawn pricing competition among vendors, etc.
What can't go away is some vetting of applications. And I think Apple should slightly reduce the 30%.... even 20% is a good source of revenue.
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My high horse? Selling an iPhone for $4000 is not sickening?
Be nice.
While i wouldn’t pay to play Fortnite, I applaud those testing the waters of the free market. A seller might get lucky and reap a few hundred dollars.
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Apple is the definition of stimulus.
As a gamer I’ve tried fortnite a few times. It’s not for me and as much as I don’t care for it, Apple needs to re evaluate its policies. Especially when it comes to game streaming. Gaming is one of the largest industries at the moment and they (Apple) would benefit from having tens of millions of gamers using their devices to play.
If someone has the disposable income to afford this, then why does this matter to you? Most people wouldn't buy this, because odds are most people have more important things to spend $4000 on, but we all know that there are some people who will do just that. Live and let live, I always say.
It’s cheaper to buy a Nintendo switch and install the game.
I feel like Epic has worked with some PR firm to try and push as many stories about their beef with Apple as they can. But I feel like Epic's CEO just doesn't 'get' Apple. Like through all of Samsung's weird anti-Apple junk, Apple continued to increase in value and continued to get more and more users, eventually eating up even more market share.
Like there's only so much money to be made in 'publicly hating Apple' and most of those users already hate Epic, because they're straight up in love with Steam. Most people don't love having a thousand different accounts for services, they forget passwords, they get frustrated and just stop using them (one of the reasons we have Keychain.) But Epic's argument is essentially Apple shouldn't be able to run a big software store that collects commissions for connecting apps with users, because Epic would prefer to be the ones running that big store.
They may publicly be saying that they want to charge users less (Ha!) but they run their own store on Windows, and they've probably decided that it's a lot cheaper to try and sue Apple and Google, than it is to build a smart phone platform that they can run their own store on. (And fun fact, they could already do this on Android!)
I can't say for sure what the courts will do, mostly because the courts often decide to do things that make no sense, particularly when Apple is involved. (Remember the judge who decided that Apple competing with Amazon in eBooks was somehow anti-competitive despite the fact that Apple had way less market share!? And then installing a lawyer to oversee them, who kept over charging Apple for things he wasn't even doing, and trying to get into meetings that had nothing to do with eBook sales.)
Ultimately I think Apple could probably gain some good will while also still giving Epic a middle finger, by saying that they'd slash App Store commissions to 10% for developers making less than ____ a month. Insert whatever number here that allows Apple to lose a bit of money but make small devs very happy, while still not giving Epic, Tencent, and King what they want.
Like there's only so much money to be made in 'publicly hating Apple' and most of those users already hate Epic, because they're straight up in love with Steam. Most people don't love having a thousand different accounts for services, they forget passwords, they get frustrated and just stop using them (one of the reasons we have Keychain.) But Epic's argument is essentially Apple shouldn't be able to run a big software store that collects commissions for connecting apps with users, because Epic would prefer to be the ones running that big store.
They may publicly be saying that they want to charge users less (Ha!) but they run their own store on Windows, and they've probably decided that it's a lot cheaper to try and sue Apple and Google, than it is to build a smart phone platform that they can run their own store on. (And fun fact, they could already do this on Android!)
I can't say for sure what the courts will do, mostly because the courts often decide to do things that make no sense, particularly when Apple is involved. (Remember the judge who decided that Apple competing with Amazon in eBooks was somehow anti-competitive despite the fact that Apple had way less market share!? And then installing a lawyer to oversee them, who kept over charging Apple for things he wasn't even doing, and trying to get into meetings that had nothing to do with eBook sales.)
Ultimately I think Apple could probably gain some good will while also still giving Epic a middle finger, by saying that they'd slash App Store commissions to 10% for developers making less than ____ a month. Insert whatever number here that allows Apple to lose a bit of money but make small devs very happy, while still not giving Epic, Tencent, and King what they want.
Probably way cheaper just to buy an android phone and play fortnite there...
I didn't think I'd ever downloaded it, but I did check to see if it was on my old phone (I'd just charged and updated everything last week), but no luck!
In all likelihood.
I don't think eBay is even supposed to let you sell devices with software/books/music advertised as preinstalled.
if you spend that much money for a game you deserve to be poor
wow an iPhone 8 Plus. I wouldn't pay more than $100 maybe for it, and since it comes preloaded with Epic malware no more than $50.
I don't know which news story is weirder today, this one or the Blackberry 5G story. It's not even a full moon tonight.
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This is why I love my iTunes 12.6.5.3 where I can manage my apps on my iMac.
If Apple remove an app on their side, I still have it downloaded to my iMac.
If Apple remove an app on their side, I still have it downloaded to my iMac.